News and Updates

May 7th, 2009 - The new Farmers Branch Animal Adoption Center was open. Grand openning was at 10am. People came to celebrate the new building that also provided new hope for cats and dogs.

April 7th, 2009 - The Hacker family was recognized at the City Council Meeting for contributions to homeless animals and the Animal Adoption Center. Together we have made a difference!! A plaque will be on display at the new animal shelter.

August 30th , 2008 - The Zoning and Planning Committee on August 11th, Monday approved the location for our new shelter for commercial use to be presented to council. City Council met last night August 12th and approved both the re-zoning and Resolution #2008-052 awarding bids in the amount of $1,845,434.00 for the construction of our new shelter!! We are really on the "train" now!

Also approved were the Petco "part- grant" donation for $500.00 and our very own Barbara Harris company donation for $500.00. Now that we are also in partnership with Petco we can apply for a full grant in December.

August 12th , 2008 - We have several donations to be presented at City Council at 6:30. Donations for the new shelter are from Petco, NEC (our very own Barbara Harris), and a $10,000 spay and neuter grant from the State is to be presented for approval! Please feel free to come and join us for this meeting, we can all sit together and show support for Cause and our new shelter.

This past week we were able to approve another home for fostering! This gives us (5) homes, but as you know with the size of our shelter more is needed. Let me know if you or someone you know can foster an animal.

July , 2008 - The new animal shelter design has been unveiled! The new state-of-the-art facility will be located at 3727 Valley View Ln. Groundbreaking for the new Farmers Branch Animal Adoption Center is anticipated by the end of Summer 2008 with the projected grand opening in March 2009. This information and more about the animal shelter can be found at the city's web site here: http://www.ci.farmers-branch.tx.us/

March 8th , 2008 - All of our dogs and cats that were at the adoption were adopted! 5 dogs and 2 cats. Plus another kitten was adopted through the shelter due to the on-site adoption. This is a great success, lets keep on saving lives!

February 23rd, 2008 - Today at WalMart went fairly well. The wind did just seem to hang in there. We were able to place Lady Lab, the female lab we have been trying to find a rescue for! Also our little female rabbit (Coco) found a home with a employee of WalMart. The first time we were there a WalMart employee adopted two of our kittens. The employee's seem to be our best customers! Special thanks to Barbara and Kelly for joining us to help. Barbara is wonderful with the cats and Kelly is especially great with dogs, we were a balanced group today! Thanks to Louise and all the men at the shelter for their part in our efforts.

Welcome to our newest volunteers, Kelly and Ashley. We are glad you have joined us and appreciate you wanting to make a difference for our sheltered friends.

We are still in the process of being approved for partnership with PetCo on Josey Lane. The manager there as you know has graciously provided coupon books for saving with proof of adoption from our shelter or off site adoptions. Until we have the partnership we have been grated permission by the property manage to hold an adoption in the parking lot.

Plans are underway for the new shelter, the physical address is 3727 Valley View Lane. Designs are being discussed, with any luck ground breaking will be August or Sept. of this year. Anyone knowing of a business that might be willing to donate carpet, tile, lighting,etc, please let me know. We would of course have to go through Council, but donations are excepted!! And of course the City would provide a tax deduction for the donation.

April 27th, 2008 - Give Em Shelter fund raiser at Gussie Park. Arfriend (a well known rescue group) Cause for Paws and the City are joining hands to promote and raise additional funds for our new shelter. While funding has been given, there are always more expenses and etc when building any new facility. Cause for Paws is excited about helping and developing the fund raiser to benefit our new shelter in response to the city's commitment to our animals. Please put this date on your calendar as we will need a lot of volunteers for this event! Also if you know of any one/company that would be willing to donate (tax free) to our "silent auction" event, please contact us as soon as possible.
We also have a $250.00 tier and a $500.00 tier to sponsors who would like to have their names printed on the back of the event t-shirts to show support(also tax free).

February 2nd, 2008 - We have scheduled an adoption at Turner Hardware.

February 1st, 2008 - Our new web site was launched by Chaunte Hines at Exceptional Signs.